25-14 Amend 144.03 Qualifications for Applicants for Fire Dept.

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PLACED ON 1ST READING & REFERRED TO THE RULES' . &.;ORAINANOW;�CP3;COMMITTEE 5/19/14. REPORTED OUT;ON i,PLACED.ON_:2nd READING 6 /2/14. ORDINANCE NO. 25 -14 BY: Bullock,,Juris, Madigan, Marx, Nowlin, O'Leary. AN ORDINANCE to take effect immediately provided it receives the affirmative vote of at least five members of Council, or otherwise to take effect at the earliest period allowed by law, to amend Section 144.03, Qualifications for Applicants for Fire Department, within the Adminis- trative Code of the City of Lakewood to increase the maximum age for a firefighter at hire to 40 years old. WHEREAS, it is necessary and desirable to amend the Administrative Code of the City to increase the maximum age for entry or lateral -entry firefighters; and WHEREAS, the Ohio Revised Code has increased the maximum age for the hiring of firefighters under state civil service rules to age 40; and WHEREAS, pursuant to the Constitution of the State of Ohio and the Ohio Revised Code, municipalities have the power of local self - government, and the power to enact laws that are for the health, safety, welfare, comfort and peace of the citizens of the municipality; and WHEREAS, this Council by a vote of at least five of its members determines that this or- dinance is an emergency measure and that it shall take effect immediately, as set forth in Article III, Sections 10 and 13 of the Second Amended Charter of the City of Lakewood, and that it is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public property, health, and safety and to provide for the usual daily operation of municipal departments, in that the current eligible list for the po- sition of firefighter expires very soon; now, therefore BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, OHIO: Section 1. Section 144.03, Qualifications for Applicants for Fire Department, of the Cod- ified Ordinances of the City of Lakewood, currently reading as follows: 144.03 QUALIFICATIONS FOR APPLICANTS FOR FIRE DEPART- MENT. (a) All applicants for entry level uniformed positions for Fire must be at least twenty -one (2 1) years of age at the time of appointment, and no person shall be eligible to receive an original appointment on and/or after the person's thirty -first (31 ") birthday. (b) Subsection (a) hereof is specifically intended to supersede State Code pro- visions on the age of applicants for appointment to positions in the Fire De- partment. is hereby amended to read as follows: